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This undated photo provided Elmira Police shows Harriette Hoyt. An 8-month-old baby found alive in a plastic bag outside a home had been abandoned there several days, authorities said. Elmira police said neighbors checking out a noise early Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, and found a baby whose feet were sticking out of the bag. Hoyt was being held Wednesday in the Chemung County Jail and has been charged with attempted murder. (Elmira Police via AP)
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In this image from a July 25, 2017 police body camera video released by District Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Aries Clark, 16, holds a black BB gun that looked like a handgun before he was shot in Marion, Ark. Two eastern Arkansas police officers won't face charges in the fatal shooting of a black teenager outside an emergency youth shelter, a prosecutor said Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. (District Prosecuting Attorney's Office via AP)
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In this image from a July 25, 2017 police body camera video released by District Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Aries Clark, 16, holds a black BB gun that looked like a handgun before he was shot in Marion, Ark. Two eastern Arkansas police officers won't face charges in the fatal shooting of a black teenager outside an emergency youth shelter, a prosecutor said Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. (District Prosecuting Attorney's Office via AP)
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In this image from a July 25, 2017, police body camera video released by District Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Aries Clark, 16, raises a black BB gun that looked like a handgun at officers before he was shot in Marion, Ark. Two eastern Arkansas police officers won't face charges in the fatal shooting of a black teenager outside an emergency youth shelter, a prosecutor said Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. (District Prosecuting Attorney's Office via AP)
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This Aug. 4, 2017, photo provided by Jillian Weiss shows Dane Lane, left, and his transgender wife, Allegra Schawe-Lane, outside the federal courthouse in Covington, Ky. The couple is filing a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that they endured sustained discrimination and harassment during a year as co-workers at an Amazon warehouse in Kentucky. (Jillian Weiss via AP)
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In this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
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Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, second left, discusses during a news conference, his office's request to dismiss about 143,000 arrest warrants for people who didn't pay tickets for minor offenses years ago, in Brooklyn, N.Y., Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017. He is flanked by New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, left, and New York City Public Advocate Letitia James, third left. District attorneys in the Bronx, Manhattan and Queens boroughs made similar requests, resulting in courts throwing out a total of over 640,000 such warrants in a single day. (AP Photo/Jennifer Peltz)
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This December 2013 photo provided by Monica Charette shows her late daughter, Cassidy Charette, who was killed in an October 2014 hayride crash in Mechanic Falls, Maine. The family has settled a lawsuit against the farm owner who operated the Halloween attraction, the family lawyer said Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. (Monica Charette via AP)
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Benjamin Wey holds up his passport to show to the media after he leaves federal court, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. The Wall Street executive says he's ready to restart his business a day after prosecutors dropped criminal charges against him. Wey returned to Manhattan federal court Wednesday to get his electronic ankle bracelet removed. And the government returned his passport that had been held as he awaited trial. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
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Monika Burgett's attorney M.J. Hugan speaks to the jury during opening statements for her trial at the Hamilton County Courthouse on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prosecutors are accusing Burgett of child abuse and other crimes, saying her preschool-age son was treated by a hospital with opioids and received unnecessary medical care after she pretended to be a doctor and falsely claimed he had cancer. (Phil Didion /The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)
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Judge Curt. C Hartman presides over the trial of Monika Burgett Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prosecutors are accusing Burgett of child abuse and other crimes, saying her preschool-age son was treated by a hospital with opioids and received unnecessary medical care after she pretended to be a doctor and falsely claimed he had cancer. (Phil Didion /The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)
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Benjamin Wey leaves federal court, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. The Wall Street executive says he's ready to restart his business a day after prosecutors dropped criminal charges against him. Wey returned to Manhattan federal court Wednesday to get his electronic ankle bracelet removed. (AP Photo/Larry Neumeister)
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Monika Burgett listens to opening statements during her trial Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prosecutors are accusing Burgett of child abuse and other crimes, saying her preschool-age son was treated by a hospital with opioids and received unnecessary medical care after she pretended to be a doctor and falsely claimed he had cancer. (Phil Didion /The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)
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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, review case clippings and court documents during an interview in his office, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Brown recalls that when Berkowitz first walked into a Brooklyn courtroom 40 years ago, it was dead silent but for the wail of a victim’s mother. It was first time anyone really got a glimpse of the man who had been accused of terrorizing New York City for a whole year with late-night shootings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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FILE - In this July 31, 1977 file photo, police rope off the area around a car as they search for evidence in the early morning hours after a young couple was shot while parked in a secluded lovers' lane in the Gravesend section of the Brooklyn borough of New York. Robert Violante was shot in the eye, which was permanently blinded, and his date, Stacy Moskowitz, was killed , both victims of "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz. Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017 is the 40th anniversary of Berkowitz's capture. (AP Photo, File)
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In this June 2017 frame from video, provided by CBS News, Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz is interviewed at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, N.Y., for a CBS News special to be broadcast Friday, Aug. 11 on the CBS Television Network. In the interview Berkowitz spoke out about what led him to terrorize New York 40 years ago by killing six people and wounding seven others in seemingly random shootings from 1976 to 1977. He also described his life before he turned into a murderer, and spoke about life in prison four decades after he was arrested. (CBS News via AP)
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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, review news clippings about the case during an interview in his office, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Brown recalls that when Berkowitz first walked into a Brooklyn courtroom 40 years ago, it was dead silent but for the wail of a victim’s mother. It was first time anyone really got a glimpse of the man who had been accused of terrorizing New York City for a whole year with late-night shootings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, shows a court document assessment of "low risk" for Berkowitz, during an interview in his office, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Brown recalls that when Berkowitz first walked into a Brooklyn courtroom 40 years ago, it was dead silent but for the wail of a victim’s mother. It was first time anyone really got a glimpse of the man who had been accused of terrorizing New York City for a whole year with late-night shootings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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An aide to Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, shuffles through case clippings during an interview in his office, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Brown recalls that when Berkowitz first walked into a Brooklyn courtroom 40 years ago, it was dead silent but for the wail of a victim’s mother. It was first time anyone really got a glimpse of the man who had been accused of terrorizing New York City for a whole year with late-night shootings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, who in 1977 was the supervising Brooklyn judge in the arraignment of the "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz, review news clippings about the case during an interview in his office, Wednesday Aug. 9, 2017, in New York. Brown recalls that when Berkowitz first walked into a Brooklyn courtroom 40 years ago, it was dead silent but for the wail of a victim’s mother. It was first time anyone really got a glimpse of the man who had been accused of terrorizing New York City for a whole year with late-night shootings. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
